Best strategy for a clean reinstall.

[Paul Trevethan]

On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:02:57 -0400
Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:

> > > > At end, the one making the rounds at the moment.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Donn.  Have you tried this yourself?  
> >
> > I just tried it on a lab-rat machine I have here.   Seemed to work
> > just fine and I have been trying to figure out how to get a list of
> > pkgs over to a diffrerent machine.
> >
> > I am thankful for the method!
> 
> My machine has a combination of packages installed from repositories
> along with debs downloaded and installed via dpkg.  How can I insurer
> that the manually installed debs are available?
> 

There is a program available in the repos called AptOnCD. Made just for
this sort of scenario.

I have a situation where I need to install Ubuntu on machines that just
do not have the download capacity in their internet accounts to handle
the large amount of downloads to get the system setup with all required
apps. So, what I do is install this machine with what I want and then
use AptOnCD to create a dvd with all the extra apps installed; then,
move to other machines, do standard install then apply AptOnCD dvd as
repo source and install all the extras. Works nicely for re-install
also.

All AptOnCD does is take all the .deb files in your cache and turn them
into an accessible repo on cd or dvd. To get your manually
installed apps that did not come from repos into this process just
manually move them into your apt-get cache ( /var/cache/apt/archives/ )
before running AptOnCD.

Works for me,
Cheers,
Paul.



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